Recent News
US judge blocks Nevada grazing; sage grouse totals dwindling
“Instead of living up to its promise to conserve, enhance and restore sage-grouse habitat, BLM embraced habitat-destroying livestock grazing actions guaranteed to drive down bird numbers,” said Katie Fite, public lands director for WildLands Defense, which won the stay of the permits pending administrative appeal. Read more…
The Public Lands Restoration Apocalypse – Counterpunch
The Bureau of Land Management’s latest assault on the West’s biodiverse pinyon-juniper forests and sagebrush communities dwarfs its many predecessors.… Read more…
April 8, 2018 To Boise City Council and Mayor: citycouncil@cityofboise.org mayor@cityofboise.org Boise Parks and Rec: bpr@cityofboise.org Albertson’s… Read more…
Redband Trout Threatened by Development, Dry Creek Idaho
WLD has been working non-stop in actions to protect redband trout habitat. The Dry Creek watershed in the Boise Foothills… Read more…
FIELD Report: ‘The Park’ Site – Argenta, Nevada
Argenta “The Park” Monitoring Site The NRST group proposed to fence this area off so that next year “improvement” could… Read more…
FIELD Report: Smashed Cage Spring – Argenta, Nevada
Argenta Smashed Cage Spring I had initially encountered this severely degraded spring in 2015, the first summer after the usurpation… Read more…
FIELD Report: Rock Creek Monitoring Site – Argenta, Nevada
Rock Creek Monitoring Site There are highly degraded conditions at the site of a proposed NRST band-aid fence on a… Read more…
FIELD Report: ‘The Park’ New Exclosure, Trespass – Argenta, Nevada
Argenta New, Expensive Exclosure Already Broken into by Trespassing Cows The NRST drove by the area of dead grouse spring and the… Read more…
FIELD Report: BLM Elkhorn Creek – Challis, Idaho
Elkhorn Creek Elkhorn Creek, downstream of the Loper Exclosure, is located in the Challis BLM Donkey Hills Area of Critical… Read more…
FIELD Report: Jacks Creek Headwaters Up and Downstream of Reservoir
Jacks Creek Drainage Up and Downstream of Jacks’ Creek Reservoir and Exclosure Former Mesic and Spring Tributary Areas Destroyed by… Read more…